Climate Crisis And Sustainable Creaturely Care

Author : Christina Nellist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527575370

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This volume encapsulates the thoughts and research of academics across the globe in regards to the biggest crisis of our generation: climate change. Considering this global crisis through the lens of creation care, this volume reviews the damage we have done to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all forms of life on earth via food insecurity, rising sea levels, mass migration and social unrest. This book presents a global voice on our historical impact on the world, the governance that allowed it and how creation care can present a way out of this crisis.

Author : Christina Nellist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527575387

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Climate Crisis and Creation Care by Christina Nellist Pdf

This volume considers the interconnectedness of all creatures in relation to our planetary boundaries. Through our constant consumption of resources, we have had a distinctly negative impact on the world around us—affecting everything from the weather, food availability, sea levels and the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers ecological, theological and economically sustainable solutions to a global crisis.

Author : Radhika Borde,Alison A Ormsby,Stephen M Awoyemi,Andrew G Gosler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000771893

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Religion and Nature Conservation by Radhika Borde,Alison A Ormsby,Stephen M Awoyemi,Andrew G Gosler Pdf

This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves. With conservation and religion often being championed as allies in the quest for a sustainable world where humans and nature flourish, this book provides a much-needed compendium of detailed examples where religion and conservation science have been brought together. Case studies cover a variety of religions, faiths and practices, including traditional, Indigenous, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism. Importantly, this volume gives voice to the religious practitioners and adherents themselves. Beyond an exercise in anthropology, ethnobiology and comparative religion, the book is an applied work, seeking the answer to how in a world of nearly eight billion people, we might help our own species to prevent the extinction of life. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of nature conservation, environment and religion, cultural geography and ethnobiology, as well as practitioners and professionals working in conservation.

Author : Obaji Agbiji
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781839739224

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Religion, Leadership and Development by Obaji Agbiji Pdf

Political, economic and military powers have woefully failed in their attempts to transform societies around the world, particularly in the African context. As poverty, corruption, and bad leadership continue to pervade nations and undermine human flourishing, the global community needs to respond with creativity, innovation and collaboration. Drawing on empirical research and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that engages both development and theology, this study explores the church’s role – both spiritual and pragmatic – in facilitating societal transformation in African countries, specifically Nigeria. The power of religion is often overlooked within development frameworks, but is a profoundly significant resource. Highlighting the importance of ecclesiastical leadership in mobilizing religious communities to partner with sociopolitical and economic institutions, Dr. Obaji Agbiji argues for a development framework that recognizes religious practitioners as indispensable partners in the quest for societal transformation. Offering insight for both scholars and practitioners, this sustainable transformative approach to development bridges the gap between theory and practice and challenges church and civil leadership to take concrete steps to combat societal ills and see nations transformed for the better.

Author : Craig Stephen,Colleen Duncan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000773859

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Climate Change and Animal Health by Craig Stephen,Colleen Duncan Pdf

This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health. It empowers educators, managers, practitioners, and researchers by providing evidence, experience, and opinions on what we need to do to prepare for, and cope with, the largest threat ever to have faced animals on this planet. With expert contributors from across the globe, the text equips the reader with information and means to develop sustainable adaptation or mitigation actions. After introducing animal health in a climate change context, chapters look at specific animal health impacts arising from climate change. The book concludes with suggestions on teachable and actionable ideas that could be used to mobilize concepts provided into education or advocacy. This book was written amid the COVID-19 pandemic and in the face of ever-increasing reports of on-the-ground, real-life climate impacts. Large scale wildfire and ocean heat waves killed unprecedented numbers of animals, while droughts in some areas and floods in others displaced thousands of livestock and made food scarce for even more. Climate change is real, and it is here. How we respond will have profound implications for people, biodiversity, welfare, conservation, societies, economies, and ecosystems. Today's veterinary educators are awakening to the need to adapt and train a new generation of animal health professionals who can understand and plan for climate change, and this book is an essential resource.

Author : Ellen Moyer
Publisher : Greenvironment Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Clean energy
ISBN : 1942936281

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Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves by Ellen Moyer Pdf

"Our current environmental crises-- most notably, climate change-- call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world far into the future. When you read this timely, accessible, and thought-provoking book, you will discover: We already have the capacities and tools to create a health and environmental revolution; Specific actions you and I can take now that will help us and our world prosper -- not just in the future, but immediately; How the strategies shared in this book can uplift our society and democracy; Why creating a high-tech and high-nature way of life could spark an economic boom ... Through science and stories, Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves makes the case for hope, optimism, and practical solutions we can take individually and collectively to green our technology, green our economy, strengthen our democracy, and create social equality."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Christina Nellist
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527574210

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Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care by Christina Nellist Pdf

This volume encapsulates the thoughts and research of academics across the globe in regards to the biggest crisis of our generation: climate change. Considering this global crisis through the lens of creation care, this volume reviews the damage we have done to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all forms of life on earth via food insecurity, rising sea levels, mass migration and social unrest. This book presents a global voice on our historical impact on the world, the governance that allowed it and how creation care can present a way out of this crisis.

Author : Jame Schaefer,Tobias Winright
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780739183816

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Environmental Justice and Climate Change by Jame Schaefer,Tobias Winright Pdf

During his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI was called ‘the green pope’ because of his ecological commitments in his writings, statements, and practical initiatives. Containing twelve essays by lay, ordained, and religious Catholic theologians and scholars, along with a presentation and a homily by bishops, Environmental Justice and Climate Change: Assessing Pope Benedict XVI's Ecological Vision for the Catholic Church in the United States explores four key areas in connection with Benedict XVI’s teachings: human and natural ecology/human life and dignity; solidarity, justice, poverty and the common good; sacramentality of creation; and our Catholic faith in action. The product of mutual collaboration by bishops, scholars and staff, this anthology provides the most thorough treatment of Benedict XVI’s contributions to ecological teaching and offers fruitful directions for advancing concern among Catholics in the United States about ongoing threats to the integrity of Earth.

Author : Lothes Biviano, Erin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336302

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Inspired Sustainability by Lothes Biviano, Erin Pdf

Author : Dennis O'Hara,Matthew Eaton,Michael T. Ross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498580069

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Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World by Dennis O'Hara,Matthew Eaton,Michael T. Ross Pdf

Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that have produced the anthropogenic ecological crisis that threatens the planet and uses the ethical vision of Laudato Si’ to promote practical responses that foster fundamental changes in humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other. The essays address not only the immediate behavioral changes needed in individual human lives, but also the deeper, societal changes required if human communities are to live sustainable lives within Earth’s integral ecology. Thus, this volume intentionally focuses on a plurality of cultural contexts and proposes solutions to problems encountered in a variety of global contexts. Accordingly, the contributors to this volume are scholars from a breadth of interdisciplinary and cultural backgrounds, each exploring an ethical theme from the encyclical and proposing systemic changes to address deeply entrenched injustices. Collectively, their essays examine the social, political, economic, gender, scientific, technological, educational, and spiritual challenges of our time as these relate to the ecological crisis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567675170

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T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change by Anonim Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change entails a wide-ranging conversation between Christian theology and various other discourses on climate change. Given the far-reaching complicity of "North Atlantic Christianity" in anthropogenic climate change, the question is whether it can still collaborate with and contribute to ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts. The main essays in this volume are written by leading scholars from within North Atlantic Christianity and addressed primarily to readers in the same context; these essays are critically engaged by respondents situated in other geographic regions, minority communities, non-Christian traditions, or non-theological disciplines. Structured in seven main parts, the handbook explores: 1) the need for collaboration with disciplines outside of Christian theology to address climate change; 2) the need to find common moral ground for such collaboration; 3) the difficulties posed by collaborating with other Christian traditions from within; 4) the questions that emerge from such collaboration for understanding the story of God's work; and 5) God's identity and character; 6) the implications of such collaboration for ecclesial praxis; and 7) concluding reflections examining whether this volume does justice to issues of race, gender, class, other animals, religious diversity, geographical divides and carbon mitigation. This rich ecumenical, cross-cultural conversation provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the theological and moral challenges raised by anthropogenic climate change.

Author : Todd LeVasseur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498534567

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Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future by Todd LeVasseur Pdf

This book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, and performance studies the book advocates for a need to update how religious studies theorizes bodies and religion. It does so by in the first half of the book advocating for religious studies as a field, and the academy as a whole, to take the ongoing and deleterious future impacts of climate change seriously--to re-member that those laboring as scholars in religious studies, and the communities they study, have always been bodies in material bio-ecological places--and to let this inform the questions religious studies scholars ask. The book argues that this will lead to very different forms of engaged, liberatory scholarship that demands a different type of scholarship and public advocacy for resilience in the face of climate change. The second half of the book offers case study examples of how scholars may better engage religious bodies within petrocultures, while attending to new, emerging materialist posthuman assemblages of religious bodies. This book will be of interest to those in religious studies, the environmental humanities, and those working at the interface of the body and the natural world.

Author : Dominic O'Key
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350189638

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Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature by Dominic O'Key Pdf

We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of literature in responding to this war against animals? How might literary criticism read for animals? In Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature, Dominic O'Key develops the bold argument that deep attention to literary form enables us to rethink human-animal relations. Through chapters on W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, as well as close readings of works by Arundhati Roy and Richard Powers, O'Key reveals how literary forms can unsettle the fictions of human supremacy and craft alternative, creaturely forms of relation. An intervention into both the humanism of literary theory and the representational focus of animal studies, this provocative work makes the case for a new formalism in light of our obligation to fellow creatures.

Author : Anabela Carvalho,Julie Doyle,Chris Russill
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782889712793

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Critical Approaches to Climate Change and Civic Action by Anabela Carvalho,Julie Doyle,Chris Russill Pdf

Author : Kiarash Aramesh,Gerard Magill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443869348

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The Urgency of Climate Change by Kiarash Aramesh,Gerard Magill Pdf

The Urgency of Climate Change addresses a pivotal challenge for the sustainability of our planet. This topic was selected for the inaugural conference in 2015 of an annual series on the Integrity of Creation. The essays in this collection were selected in a peer-reviewed manner and appeal to a general audience. The chapters move from general to more specific points of view, with a discussion at the end of each section addressing the global impact of climate change. The first section sets the Context for the discussion, explaining that the climate is an indispensable common good. The part on Science emphasises that empirical reality must guide any analysis of the climate as a matter of basic knowledge and comprehension. A crucial implication is whether the climate is sufficiently robust for the Earth to flourish for millennia ahead, as discussed in the part on Sustainability. In turn, these sections raise pivotal questions, regarding Ethics about social obligations for the planet to flourish and regarding Religion to foster global stewardship. Finally, this alignment of Ethics and Religion around the problems related to Science and Sustainability leads to the final section on Law that considers policy possibilities to effectively engage Climate Change.